Did you send a formal letter to Bukharin offering him
to publish a discussion
article?[3] It is absolutely necessary to send him a formal letter and
keep a copy (send it to me). A polite letter, of course, saying
that we are replying to Radek’s theses in any case (to hint that he can
wait until this discussion is over if he wants).

Notes

[2]This refers to the letter to Anna Ulyanova-Yelizarova asking for
information about the Volna Publishers and about the identity of
P. Ryabovsky, who had offered Lenin and Zinoviev to contribute to the
symposiums put out by this publishing house =
(see Note 478).

[3]Bukharin wrote an article “A Contribution to the Theory of the
Imperialist State” for Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata, but owing to
its fallacious anti-Marxist propositions on the question of the state and
the dictatorship of the proletariat the article was rejected by the
Editorial Board.

No. 1 of Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata carried Radek’s “Theses on
Imperialism and National Oppression” published in the journal
Vorbote in April 1916 over the signature of the editors of
Gazeta Robotnicza. Lenin’s article “The Discussion on
Self-Determination Summed Up” published in Sbornik directly after
Radek’s theses was a reply to them.